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City historian looks back at the beginnings of Chicago Air and Water Show
As the Chicago Air & Water Show gets ready to celebrate its 60th year this weekend, Tim Samuelson, the city's historian, sat down with ABC7 to take a look back at how it all began in 1959.
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